* One of the following conditions must occur for a crime to be defined as violent under this definition: actual physical harm or threat of physical harm, or a reasonable probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended physical harm or the threat of physical harm.

Inmate Admissions Compared Over Five Years

Type of Offense

Number

Percent

Average Sentence
Length in Years*

Average Age at
Admission

Murder, Manslaughter

1,136

2.9%

23.5

31.1

Sexual offenses

1,770

4.6%

11.9

37.1

Robbery

2,894

7.5%

8.2

27.2

Violent Personal offenses

5,070

13.1%

4.3

33

Burglary

5,722

14.8%

4.6

30.8

Theft/Forgery/Fraud

5,941

15.3%

2.3

35.5

Drug offenses

10,617

27.4%

3

34.4

Weapons

1,427

3.7%

3.3

31.7

Other

4,170

10.7%

2.5

36.7

Data Unavailable = 607
*Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.